Guatemalan Cuisine: Fiambre Slideshow

On November 1st and 2nd Guatemala, like many other catholic countries, celebrates the Day of the Dead (Dí­a de los Difuntos) and the All Saints Day (Dí­a de los Santos). The cemeteries, from the most exclusive to the most modest and humble, become overwhelmed with people bringing flowers, crosses, food and even music (sometimes Mariachi music) to their dead relatives.

Two days ago I told you about the Giant Kites (over 15 meters wide) that fill the skies over the cemeteries of Sacatepéquez to help guide the dead back to their love ones. Unfortunately it was not possible for me to go to the near-by towns that have them. So, I found a site that has a Photographic Tour of the Giant Kites (thanks to blog dumitraqui for the link). You will have to know four Spanish words to navigate the show: Entrar (enter), Siguiente (next), Anterior (previous) and Inicio (home). More photos of the Giant Kites can be found at Flickr.

Fiambre, a salad made from cold cuts, all kinds of meats, fish, vegetables and pickled vegetables, is served on November 1st, after a visit to the cemetery. Fiambre is a cold meal of Spanish origin, possibly from the Extremadura provinces in Spain. Fiambre is a very special meal for Guatemalans and it is only available on November 1st and 2nd. Because fiambre is an extremely rare and unique meal which can include over 50 ingredients, I decided to show you the final part of the preparation through a slide show.

The photos were taken a Lo-Mix Cafeteria, which is a small restaurant with over 35 years of making fiambre. Lo-Mix is chosen by many Antigüeños as their fiambre provider and we have bought our fiambre from them since 2002. The owners of Lo-Mix told me it takes them about 15 days of pre preparation to get to the stage you will see in the photos. For those who live in Antigua and want to know where buy good fiambre, Lo-Mix is on 7a calle poniente N. 25B and their telephone number is 5656-9417.

This slide show is dedicated to Ale from Arte-sano. Bon appetite mano!

I love it when DP blogs have food or meal photos, but your slide show has got to be the best one I saw up to now. Fantastic job. But what is that green vegetable (?) that’s shaped like garlic? It looks spicy.

WOW! Lots of familiar ingredients there, but we have nothing that puts them all together in that manner. It’s making me hungry! Our All Saints Day here is mostly about tidying up and taking flowers: very quiet, compared to yours.

Now there is one thing I had not thought about in years. You know you really have to stop posting such vivid, yummy pictures unless you are ready to send a plate overnight. All we have here is Halloween candy. Thank you for keeping memories alive.

Meg: I am sorry I did answer your question about the green vegetable which is baby squash, or like zucchini.

mario contreras

Just to answer your question guys, I am from Guatemala and I grew up there and I live there, so if you ask a Guatemalan what is the black sausage everybody will know.

The black sausage is called Moronga or Morcilla sometimes, and it’s nothing but the intestine skin filled up with blood, after the blood gets clogged it becomes a hard sausage, then is cut in slices and served, believe it or not that is it, no kidding, I never eat it alone because it kind of disgusting to me, but actually inside the fiambre I love it.

Please, can you send us your complet contact for to get some information about your fiambre product.

very important matter.

Best regards,

Prisca in Congo -Brazzaville

Jose

I´m from Guatemal too, and I enjoy every november 1 eating fiambre, but in my entire life I have never eaten fiambre with moronga = morcilla, the black saucege is…. belive it or not “black chorizo” = black saucege. But you can do with your fiambre whatever you want, but I don´t recomend moronga in it. Buen provecho from Guatemala.

I lived with this family when I was in Guatemala and they are some of the loveliest people Ive ever known, helping me out and being too kind! I got amazed by encountering them on these photos. Amor y paz!

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